English Skills with Readings 7th Edition by John Langan

Exercise 126

Identify the sentence-skills mistakes at the underlined spots in the paragraph that follows. From the box below, choose the letter that describes each mistake and write it in the space provided. The same mistake may appear more than once.
a. fragment
b. run-on
c. missing capital letter
d. mistake in subject-verb agreement
e. faulty parallelism
f. apostrophe mistake
g. missing quotation mark
h. missing comma after introductory words
Why I Didn't Go to Church
In my boyhood years, I almost never attended church. There was an unwritten code that the guys on the corner
not to be seen in
Although there
many days when I wanted to attend a church, I felt I had no choice but to stay away. If the guys had heard I had gone to church, they would have said things like,
angel, when are you oing to
With my group of friends,
amazing that I developed any religious feeling at all. Another reason for not going to church was my father. When he was around the

he told my mother, "Mike's not going to church. No boy of mine is a sissy." My mother and sister went to
sat with my father and read the Sunday paper or
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did not start going to church until years later.
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on the corner or let my father have power over me.
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